Algeria announces food price cuts to quell riots
Tweet – Algeria’s government said it would slash the cost of some staple foods on Saturday to try to quell four days of rioting, triggered by price rises, which killed two people and wounded several hundred. Government ministers met in the capital to discuss how to respond to the wave of unrest. As they did so, fresh protests broke out in two cities in the volatile Kabylie region east of Algiers, witnesses told Reuters by…
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